Re: Sharing SolrCloud collection configs w/overrides

[Tim Vaillancourt <ti...@elementspace.com>]

Here you go Erick, feel free to update this.

I am unable to assign to you, but asked for someone to do so:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5208

Cheers,

Tim

On 21/08/13 10:40 AM, Tim Vaillancourt wrote:
> Well, the mention of DIH is a bit off-topic. I'll simplify and say all 
> I need is the ability to set ANY variables in solrconfig.xml without 
> having to make N number of copies of the same configuration to achieve 
> that. Essentially I need 10+ collections to use the exact same config 
> dir in Zookeeper with minor/trivial differences set in variables.
>
> Your proposal of taking in values at core creation-time is a neat one 
> and would be a very flexible solution for a lot of use cases. My only 
> concern for my really-specific use cae is that I'd be setting DB 
> user/passwords via plain-text HTTP calls, but having this feature is 
> better than not.
>
> In a perfect world I'd like to be able to include files in Zookeeper 
> (like XInclude) that are outside the common config dir (eg: 
> '/configs/sharedconfig') all the collections would be sharing. On the 
> other hand, that sort of solution would open up the Zookeeper layout 
> to arbitrary files and could end up in a nightmare if not done 
> carefully, however.
>
> Would it be possible for Solr to support specifying multiple configs 
> at collection creation, that are merged or concatenated. This idea 
> sounds terrible to me even at this moment, but I wonder if there is 
> something in there..
>
> Tim